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Senior Associate, Buyer, PBG Procurement NA

Pfizer

Location: Tampa, Florida
Type: Full-Time, Non-Remote
Posted on: October 20, 2021
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Sr. Associate, Buyer, PBG Procurement NA
Pfizer
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Job Type
Full-time
Full Job Description For more than 170 years, Pfizer has continuously worked to make a difference by delivering innovative therapies that improve the lives of our patients. By building a talented community of colleagues that align with our patient-focused purpose and core values, Pfizer has improved global health and impacted more than 780 million patients around the world.
In 2021, Pfizer expanded its global footprint to Tampa, establishing a strategic powerhouse that brings together multi-disciplinary, professional services including Finance, Accounting, Treasury, Digital, HR Services, Sourcing, Commercial and Project Management into a single, centralized location. With so many diverse and highly-skilled colleagues supporting multiple functions and services across the organization, Pfizer Tampa offers ample opportunity to engage in newer ways of working that enhance, simplify, and transform how we deliver treatments to our patients.
Located in Heights Union, the Pfizer Tampa site offers a modern industrial design, the latest in innovative technology, and close proximity to Downtown with views of the Tampa Riverwalk and access to the Channel district and Bayshore Boulevard. From an onsite fitness center to top floor panoramic balconies and outdoor patio, our activity-based space will provide various ways of working to offer collaboration and flexibility to colleagues. The Pfizer Tampa site has constructed an atmosphere that fosters interaction and prioritizes colleague health and wellness.
Additionally, to achieve breakthroughs that change patients’ lives, Pfizer is revolutionizing and evolving how colleagues work today. This year, Pfizer launched a new initiative that we call Log In For Your Day where a majority of colleagues can arrange with their manager to work remotely two or three days a week while still maintaining the ability to collaborate regularly in person at our sites. This flexible working model blends the best of remote work and on-site collaboration to drive greater flexibility, support work-life balance, and promote a vibrant, agile, and innovative culture.
Why Patients Need You Creating value though procurement processes is keeping our products in production and our innovators innovating. Whether you are part of negotiating contracts, managing vendors or forecasting requirements, your role is critical to getting our medicines in the hands of the people who need them most, faster and more efficiently than ever before.
What You Will Achieve Working with a dynamic team of procurement experts, you will play an important role in negotiating contracts with suppliers for the procurement of goods, services and supplies. You will facilitate category management, purchase goods and services for ongoing operations and manage corporate services.
As a Senior Associate, your knowledge and skills will contribute towards the goals and objectives of the procurement team. Your focus and ability to meet team targets will help in completing critical deliverables. Your innovative use of communication tools and techniques will help clarify difficult issues and establish consensus between teams.
It is your hard work and commitment that will make Pfizer ready to achieve new milestones and help patients across the globe.
How You Will Achieve It • Contribute to the completion of projects, manage own time to meet agreed targets, and develop plans for activities on own projects.
• Ensure supplier relations are consistent with company values and in compliance with established procurement policies and procedures.
• Identify ways of improving the procurement processes, tools, policies and procedures, to drive efficiency and proactive engagement in opportunities.
• Lead and manage contract negotiations to ensure necessary quality, and service levels are met at the most competitive cost in the market.
• Interface with Pfizer Procurement groups to assure alignment with pre-established strategies.
• Deliver Market/Site category management, including the development of specific strategies for assigned categories.
• Support complex local sourcing initiatives, including spot buying as required.
• Apply appropriate strategic sourcing tools and educate local teams and stakeholders on best practices.
• Manage and support sites in the rapid resolution of supplier quality and material issues.
• Support project office activities to assure tasks are executed among team in quality and timely manner.
• Meet with finance representatives regularly to understand actual, forecast and planned expenditure to assess opportunities for assigned categories.
• Mediate to resolve service related issues with internal and external stakeholders.
• Support the analytical requirements defined by the reporting line, create key sourcing documents and identify the primary groups or key positions with which this position will have interaction.
• Engage with your counterparts in other teams to share knowledge and best practices.
• Assure compliance of corporate policies, local policies and procedures and compliance with Good Manufacturing Practices (also cGMP) Environment, Health & Safety (Local applications) and Sarbanes-Oxley.
Basic Qualifications • Bachelor's Degree
• 3+ years of demonstrated experience
• Related work experience in Procurement, Finance, or Supply Chain discipline is required, ideally within a large, complex multi-national company
• In-depth experience of strategic sourcing, category management and strategic supplier management
• Able to demonstrate advanced use of analytical tools along with good problem-solving facilitation and analytical skills
• Strong negotiating techniques and knowledge of procurement procedures
• Client engagement and customer relationship management skills
• Good problem solving, facilitation and analytical skills
• Ability to effectively manage competing priorities with attention to detail in a fast paced environment
Preferred Qualifications • Master's degree
• Relevant pharmaceutical experience
• Cross-site, cross-functional project skills and experience
• Ability to interface effectively with colleagues throughout the organization to achieve desired customer service results
Last Date to Apply for Job: November 1, 2021
Eligible for Relocation Package
Pfizer requires all U.S. new hires to be fully vaccinated for COVID-19 prior to the first date of employment. As required by applicable law, Pfizer will consider requests for Reasonable Accommodations.
Sunshine Act
Pfizer reports payments and other transfers of value to health care providers as required by federal and state transparency laws and implementing regulations. These laws and regulations require Pfizer to provide government agencies with information such as a health care provider’s name, address and the type of payments or other value received, generally for public disclosure. Subject to further legal review and statutory or regulatory clarification, which Pfizer intends to pursue, reimbursement of recruiting expenses for licensed physicians may constitute a reportable transfer of value under the federal transparency law commonly known as the Sunshine Act. Therefore, if you are a licensed physician who incurs recruiting expenses as a result of interviewing with Pfizer that we pay or reimburse, your name, address and the amount of payments made currently will be reported to the government. If you have questions regarding this matter, please do not hesitate to contact your Talent Acquisition representative.
EEO & Employment Eligibility
Pfizer is committed to equal opportunity in the terms and conditions of employment for all employees and job applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, gender identity or gender expression, national origin, disability or veteran status. Pfizer also complies with all applicable national, state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment as well as work authorization and employment eligibility verification requirements of the Immigration and Nationality Act and IRCA. Pfizer is an E-Verify employer.
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